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...Suddenly, over the din of the still, sad music of the slot machinery, I hear what I think is my name being called over the public address system. "Robert Coolbrith, please dial extension blah-blah-gargle-blah." I find an official-looking man wearing a cerulean blue coat and an earpiece, and ask him for some assistance. He leads me to a house phone. I speak with an operator and discover that I have not been paged. The blue-coated man asks me how things went on the phone, and I must report to him that...
...Coat: The first thing I noticed was the baby-blue coat. She's definitely not afraid to stand out. It's the kind of blue that definitely stands out in a crowd, especially in the dead of winter when everyone is wearing black. Especially the baby-blue with the plaid lining. That's to say she's very confident in herself and doesn't depend on the reinforcement of others...
...thieves are not particularly crafty, Pasquarello says; they have no need to be. They will enter a restaurant, look around for someone who has their coat on the back of their chair and ask for an adjacent table. From there, they can reach back and take a purse, pocketbook, or items in the coat pockets...
...single best way to prevent thefts, Pasquarello says, is to be aware of your surroundings, and not to hang valuable items on your chair--or, even worse, a coat rack...
...protector of Weed's sheep is a six-year-old llama named Cyrus, an animal best known for its thick, shaggy coat and its agility on narrow alpine trails. Here on the flatland expanse at the base of the snow-capped Bridger Mountains, the brown and white beast walks guard duty amid a sea of much smaller brown and white woolly bodies. Deceptively spry despite his goofy appearance, the llama struts and shuffles among the flock, craning his head from one side of the field to another while occasionally stopping to munch on grass clumps in the crusty, frozen earth...